{"id":2903,"date":"2006-11-16T03:11:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T10:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/15\/on-the-uselessness-of-phones\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T03:11:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T10:11:14","slug":"on-the-uselessness-of-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"On The Uselessness of Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2006\/11\/the_science_of_charity.php\">Cognitive Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I get a phone call from a solicitor asking me to support my local fire department or the search for the cure for cancer, I refuse to give. If a live person shows up at my door asking me to donate to a worthy cause, I nearly always give something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dave goes on to suggest that it&#8217;s the pressure of being seen by neighbors which makes him give when the interaction is face-to-face &#8211; but I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s true. I&#8217;m also more likely to give to the door-to-door folks than to the folks who call, and since I generally invite the door-to-door folks in and offer them coffee, what my neighbors see isn&#8217;t an issue. (And it really wouldn&#8217;t be an issue regardless, in my neighborhood).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/field.html\">Neil The Ethical Werewolf<\/a> (guest-blogging at Ezra Klein&#8217;s blog) cites a study of &#8220;get out the vote&#8221; efforts, suggesting that we just don&#8217;t respond well to phone appeals, compared to face-to-face interactions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iq.harvard.edu\/NewsEvents\/Conferences\/ESS\/May00\/gerber11.pdf\">study <\/a>on this issue comes from Donald Green at Yale.  From the abstract: &#8220;We find that personal canvassing increased voter turnout substantially; direct mail, slightly; and phone calls, not at all.&#8221;  Green&#8217;s hypothesis is that a decline in the amount of face-to-face contact between people and campaigns is responsible for the historical decline in voter turnout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cognitive Daily: If I get a phone call from a solicitor asking me to support my local fire department or the search for the cure for cancer, I refuse to give. If a live person shows up at my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}